Edwin Hatch

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Edwin Hatch

Edwin Hatch (born September 4, 1835 in Derby , Derbyshire , England , † November 10, 1889 in Oxford ) was an English theologian and Septuagint researcher .

biography

Edwin Hatch was born on September 4th, 1835 in Derby, on the River Derwent in Derbyshire . In 1844 he came to Birmingham , where his parents had moved, to King Edward's School , whose direction was in the hands of James Prince Lee (1804–1869). This school also had Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889) and Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) owe their education. Hatch was a member of this school until 1853. In the same year he went to Oxford University after he had already won a prize in 1852 on the occasion of its three-hundredth anniversary with the essay "The Social Condition of England in the Times of Edward VI". At the end of his school days he made the decision to join the high church, to which the influence of his friend John Cale Miller (1814-1880) moved him. His parents were non-conformists .

A group of young men gathered in Oxford to bring together school memories. To him belonged Richard Watson Dixon (1833-1900), Charles Joseph Faulkner (1833-1892), William Morris (1834-1896) and later Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). The first literary publications with which Hatch appeared before the public fall during his college years in Oxford. He provided essays and sketches on philosophical, literary, historical, and historical subjects for The Church Quarterly Review , The London Quarterly Review , The Illustrated London News , Bentley's Miscellany , The Examiner, and The Record . For a while he contemplated starting a newspaper himself. However, this plan failed.

In 1857 Hatch passed the examination ( second class in classics ), and a year later he won the Ellerton Prize with a treatise, The Lawfulness of War . After a short interval, which was completed by the Mastership at Cowbridge School, he received the ordination . The year 1859 brought him a call to America , he was offered a professorship in classical languages ​​and philosophy at Trinity College in Toronto ( Ontario ). His new office forced him to study classical literature and the writings of the Greek philosophers closely. Hatch therefore drew the stoics , rhetors, and sophists of the imperial era into the circle of his studies. He stayed in Toronto until 1862, when he was appointed rector of the college in Quebec . After serving in this position for five years, he returned to his homeland.

In 1867 Hatch received the office of Vice Principal of St Mary Hall in Oxford, in addition to this office still the Grinfield Lectorship on the LXX . The direction he took in his investigations was felt to be something completely new and monstrous: It seemed to be a sacrilege to religion, to investigate the origin of the dogma of the early Church with the means of historical criticism and the reasons for the changes that were emerging To seek transformations and transformations. Gradually, however, there were successes and recognition. The University of Edinburgh appointed him a Dr. theol., and in 1884 he became a Reader in Ecclesiastical History .

In 1880 Hatch was given the Bampton Lectures and in 1888 he gave the Hibbert Lectures series . In them he appeared one last time in front of a larger audience. Hatch died in Oxford on November 11, 1889. “Four days later,” wrote William Sanday in The Expositor , “a band of friends from near and far, friends who were in line with him and those who had been in the ranks of his opponents, moved through the quiet Holywell Cemetery. All around it breathed the peace that this lofty, far-sighted spirit had found, and the mild rays of the autumn sun shone like a gaze from the heights of the sky, the course that had come to an end in God's sight, which it also did in the eyes of people might have been. "

Fonts

  • 1881: On the Organization of the Early Christian Churches. Eight Lectures Delivered before the University of Oxford, in the Year 1880 . London: Rivingtons ( archive )
    • German edition 1883: The social constitution of the Christian churches in antiquity. Eight lectures by Edwin Hatch . Ov. Adolf Harnack . Giessen: J. Ricker ( archive.org )
  • 1887: The Growth of Church Institutions . London: Hodder and Stoughton ( archive )
    • American edition 1887. New York: Thomas Whittaker ( archive )
    • German edition 1888: The foundation of the church constitution of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages. Authorized translation by Adolf Harnack . Giessen: J. Ricker
    • Second British edition 1888 ( archive )
  • 1889: Essays in Biblical Greek . Oxford: Clarendon ( archive )
  • 1889: Towards Fields of Light. Sacred Poems . London: Hodder and Stoughton ( Hathitrust )
  • 1890 (posthumously): The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages upon the Christian Church (= The Hibbert Lectures 1888 ). Edited by AM Fairbairn. London: Williams and Norgate ( archive )
    • German edition 1892: Greece and Christianity. Twelve Hibbert lectures on the influence of Greek ideas and customs on the Christian church . German by Erwin Preuschen . With supplements from Adolf Harnack and the translator . Freiburg i. Br .: JCB Mohr ( Hathitrust )
    • Sixth British edition, 1897. Ed. By AM Fairbairn. London: Williams and Norgate ( archive )
  • 1890 (posthumously): Memorials of Edwin Hatch, DD, Edited by his Brother . London: Hodder and Stoughton ( archive )
  • 1890 (posthumous): The God of Hope
  • 1897–1906 (posthumously) (with Henry A. Redpath ): A Concordance to the Septuagint and the other Greek Versions of the Old Testament (including the Apocryphal Books). Clarendon Press, Oxford (scanned onto Commons )

literature

Web links

Commons : Edwin Hatch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erwin Preuschen : D. Edwin Hatch . In: Greece and Christianity. Twelve Hibbert lectures on the influence of Greek ideas and customs on the Christian church . Freiburg im Breisgau 1892, p. VII-XI .
personal data
SURNAME Hatch, Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English theologian and Septuagint researcher
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Derby , Derbyshire , England
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1889
Place of death Oxford